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C. WATERMAN;

Domestic Boiler.

Patented Nov. 2, 1869-.

No. 96,518. Y

N.PETERS. PHOYQ LITNOGRAPNiR, WA

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CYRUS WATERMAN, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

Letters Patent No. 96,518, dated November 2, 1869.

STEAM CULINARY VESSEL.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same vided with a cover, and airangcd for use, in connection with the ordinary so-callcd tea-kettle, or water-boiler, the whole forming an economical, cfi'ective,'and desirable article of kitchen-ti1rnit\u'e; and I do hereby declare that the following specification, taken in con-, nection with the drawings tiu'nished, and forming a ,partof the same, is a clear and correct description thereof.

Figure 1 represents one of my improved vessels in perspective. 1

A is theouter vessel. I B, that portion ot'thesame which is made to enter the kettle or boiler, with which it is to be used.

Within the part B, the bot-tom ot' the vessel is perforated, or it may be left entirely open.

0 is the cover, made to fit so as to retain as much of the rising steam as. posible.

Figure 2 represents the same in vertical section, and parts are lettered, as in fig. 1.

1) represents an inner \esse-l, with a. cover fitting as tightly as possible, with the ordinary slide-cover joint. Upon its outer periphery, extending ti'om bottom to the top, are flanges, arranged spirally, so as to fill, as far as possible, the space between the vessels, for the purpose of subjecting the inner vessel to the greatest possible degree of heat h-oin the rising steam.

Figure 5 represents the vessel 1) in perspective, and exhibits more-full y the flanges referred to, marked i The mode of using my vessel is sutiiciently explained by the description,

I am aware thata great; variety of steaming onli nary vessels have heretofore been constructed; but I am not aware that any have, before my invention, been made, which, while being adapted for common and general use, can also be used in connection with the ordinary tca-kettle or \vatcr-lmih-r, and pcrfin'tn the operation of cooking without having the steam directly in contact with the food, and precluding, thereby, the possibility of tainting the water in the kettle during the process.

l thereiore claim, as a new article of manuflu-ture- The arrangement and combination of the steamchambcr A, provided with the dou'nward-projecting.

flange B, and 'partially-peiforated bottom, with the close-covered inner vessel 1), when all the parts are constructed so as to operate as described.

CYRUS WATERMAN.

Witnesses:

Tnos. A. NILLETT, CHARLES SELDEN. 

